. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical. horns sable,stringed gules, for the name of Forrester; second and third azure, ninemullets or, for Baillie. Crest On a wreath, a talbots head crazed argent Supporters. Two talbotsof the last Motto. Spero. Chief Seats. Were at Torwood in the shire of Stirling, and Corstorphine,within two miles of Edinburgh. i Ulsters VIII. a 326 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth argent, on a fess, sable,three mullets of six points pierced, or, and in the dexter chief anermine spot, for Grimston, second an
. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical. horns sable,stringed gules, for the name of Forrester; second and third azure, ninemullets or, for Baillie. Crest On a wreath, a talbots head crazed argent Supporters. Two talbotsof the last Motto. Spero. Chief Seats. Were at Torwood in the shire of Stirling, and Corstorphine,within two miles of Edinburgh. i Ulsters VIII. a 326 PEERAGE OF ENGLAND. Arms. Quarterly, first and fourth argent, on a fess, sable,three mullets of six points pierced, or, and in the dexter chief anermine spot, for Grimston, second and third argent, three buflfaloihorns sable, stringed gules, for Forrester. Crest. On a wrt-ath, a stags head couped, proper, attired, or. Supporters. The dexter a stag, reguardant, proper, attired,as the crest. The sinister a gryphon, reguardant, or. Motto. Mediocria firma. CMef Seats. Gorhambury in the county of Hertford, twenty-two miles from London ; and Messing-Hall, otherwise Baynards-Castle, near Colchester in Essex, forty-four miles from London. LORD DOUGLAS. 227. ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS, LORD DOUGLASOF DOUGLAS. His Lordship was adjudged by a final decree of the house oflords, in l/tJy, to be son and heir of Sir John Stewart, of Gran •tully, Bart, by Lady Jane Douglas, sister of the hst Duke ofDouglas, and nephew and heir to the said Duke, who died in1761 3 on which his dukedom became extinctj and his raarqui-sate and other titles devohed on his next heir male, the Duke ofHamilton. (See title Brandon, vol. i. p. 51]). If a long train of illustrious ancestors, says Douglas in hispeerage, distinguished by the highest titles, and connected withthe most august and noble families, in Europe, can make anyname remarkable and great, there is no subject can plfead a higherclaim than the Douglas; but it is the least part of the glory ofthis family, that it has been honoured Mith alliances by marriage,into the first rank of nobility in Scotland, England, and France,even with crowned he
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